Stanley Dance Sessions [Import]

Stanley Dance Sessions [Import]

ASIN: B0009RS5Y2

Track Listings

1. Bird Of Prey Blues

2. My One And Only Love

3. Vignette

4. Ooh-Wee, Miss Gp!

5. You've Changed

6. Get Set

7. Sunday

8. Hanid

9. Honey Flower

10. Nabob

11. Introduction By Al "Jazzbo" Collins (Bonus Track)

12. Foolin' Around (Bonus Track)

13. Man I Love (Bonus Track)

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Product Description
The Lonehill Jazz collection was established for the sole purpose of recovering lost jazz treasures previously unavailable on any other edition worldwide. Features the re-mastered sounds of Coleman Hawkins and for the first time on CD this collection contains bonus tracks from a live concert broadcast at New York's 'Phytian Temple' November 7, 1955. 2005.

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The Stanley Dance Sessions
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Great Hodges Showcase

Rabbit and the Swee' Pea

Stanley Danc Sessions - Strayhorn

Re-issue of "Cue for Saxophone" + "Johnny Hodges with Billy Strayhorn and THE Orchestra"

The Stanley Dance Sessions
Billy Strayhorn , and Johnny Hodges
Manufacturer: Lone Hill Jazz
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B0009RS5ZG
Release Date: 2005-05-16

Tracks:

Cue's Blue Now
Gone with the Wind
Cherry
Watch Your Cue
You Brought a New Kind of Love to Me
When I Dream of You
Rose Room
Don't Get Around Much Anymore
I Got It Bad (And That Ain't Good)
Gal from Joe's
Your Love Has Faded
I'm Just a Lucky So-And-So
Jeep's Blues
Day Dream
Juice A-Plenty
Azure
Tailor Made
Star Dust

Album Description

The Lonehill Jazz collection was established for the sole purpose of recovering lost jazz treasures previously unavailable on any other edition worldwide. This is an exquisite re-mastered collaboration between Billy Strayhorn & Johnny Hodges. 2005.

Album Details

Digitally Remastered Recordings featuring Harold "shorty" Baker, Quentin Jackson, Russell Procope and Oliver Jackson.

Customer Reviews:

Great Hodges Showcase.......2007-06-19

As previous reviewers have stated, this is a compilation of 2 CDs, and the septet date from 1959, alone, is worth the price of admission. The sound quality is excellent, and all the band members are in top form. Just listen to the Strayhorn and Hodges solos on Gone With the Wind, the great brushwork on Cherry and Rose Room, and the Hodges solos on all the other tracks. Perfect music - and now my favorite Hodges disc.

Rabbit and the Swee' Pea.......2007-03-30

This CD collects a Felsted LP produced by Stanley Dance under pianist Billy Strayhorn's name ("Cue for Saxophone," 1959), and another by master alto player Johnny Hodges originally on Verve ("Soloist," 1961). The Verve item has been reissued before on CD and is one of the best on that label featuring Hodges. THE GAL FROM JOE'S, I GOT IT BAD, and I'M JUST A LUCKY SO AND SO all receive near-definitive treatments here, with Hodges's creamy alto front and center. In fact, this entire set, except for STARDUST, which is a feature for trombonist Lawrence Brown, shines the solo spotlight almost exclusively on Rabbit, and he performs to perfection.

The Felsed material was from a septet date and also has Shorty Baker on trumpet (excellent on the up-tempo blues WATCH YOUR CUE, muted), Butter Jackson on trombone, Hodges, Strayhorn, and Russell Procope on clarinet (a stand-out on CHERRY and the theme statement of ROSE ROOM). CUE'S BLUE NOW is a long, slow blues that gives everyone a solo taste. Having both these LPs available on one CD should make any Hodges-Strayhorn/Ellington fan happy. The sound is also excellent (the Verve set had superb sound going all the way back to its release on LP: crystal clear and dynamic).

Stanley Danc Sessions - Strayhorn.......2007-03-11

Greatest 'Golden Age of Jazz' icon's works, well done. Thx./D.

Re-issue of "Cue for Saxophone" + "Johnny Hodges with Billy Strayhorn and THE Orchestra".......2006-12-08

The Amazon product description for this item is a little misleading in that it says this is part of a reissue series "established for the sole purpose of recovering lost jazz treasures previously unavailable on any other edition worldwide." Well, I've got both of these jazz treasures on CD (through not on the same CD), and they are great, if somewhat opposite albums. Tracks 1-7, released originally as by Billy Strayhorn because Hodges was signed to Verve records, are really a Johnny Hodges small group session with Strayhorn on piano and in charge of the minimal arrangements. On CD, this came out in 1988 on the London label, still under Strayhorn's name, though the liner notes come clean about the previously incognito Hodges (as if anyone would have trouble identifying that tone!). Butter Jackson (trombone), Russell Procope (clarinet), and Shorty Baker (trumpet) join Hodges here (interesting lineup, because Hodges was so often featured alongside Lawrence Brown, Harry Carney, and Ray Nance / Cootie Williams in small-group settings). It's a set of straight-ahead swing, standards and blues. No novelties or bids for radio airplay; just classic medium tempo to mellow swing. According to Strayhorn's biographer, Hodges didn't think that much of this album, but I think it's great success because while it's aims are modest, the level of talent, taste and group cohesion is very high.

"Cue for Saxophone", being in reality a Hodges blowing session, is definitely not the setting that showcases Strayhorn's genius as a composer or band arranger. The second album on this reissue CD is just such a showcase of Strayhorn's genius--it's a Verve date with the full Ellington orchestra minus Ellington (Jimmy Jones sits in on piano) from around 1960 (hence the capitalization--"THE Orchestra"--in the title). The elegantly-packaged Verve CD release is only a few years old and is still available if you want the original graphics and liner note essay. On this big-band Lp, the charts are short but packed with details, and Hodges is showcased on ballads, blues, and Ellington standards. The version of Azure here is one of Strayhorn's most beautiful charts (it features a gentle ostinato in the bass reminescent of Claude Thornhill's "Snowfall"). Day Dream is always a home run for Hodges when he's fronting the Ellington band. Almost all of the material is top shelf (one song towards the end is a bit on the cutesy side, but it is the lone fugitive from good taste). The only problem with this big-band album is that it's over too quickly.

Not having heard or seen in person this CD release, I can't comment on the mastering quality or the packaging. But the music is prime-time Hodges and Strayhorn, and features lots of other great Ellington veterans in high fidelity sound (as compared to the 78 rpm era, not to modern digital studios of course).

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The Stanley Dance Sessions
Coleman Hawkins
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ASIN: B0009RS5Y2
Release Date: 2005-05-16

Tracks:

Bird of Prey Blues
My One and Only Love
Vignette
Ooh-Wee, Miss GP!
You've Changed
Get Set
Sunday - Coleman Hawkins All Stars
Hanid
Honey Flower
Nabob
Introduction [*]
Foolin' Around [*]
Man I Love [*]

Album Description

The Lonehill Jazz collection was established for the sole purpose of recovering lost jazz treasures previously unavailable on any other edition worldwide. Features the re-mastered sounds of Coleman Hawkins and for the first time on CD this collection contains bonus tracks from a live concert broadcast at New York's 'Phytian Temple' November 7, 1955. 2005.

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Digitally Remastered Recordings featuring Roy Eldridge, Buck Clayton, Hank Jones and Ray Brown.

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Dicky Wells

The Stanley Dance Sessions
Dicky Wells
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Binding: Audio CD

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Complete Original Quartet/Quintet Sessions

ASIN: B0009RS600
Release Date: 2005-05-16

Tracks:

Bones for the King
Sweet Daddy Spo-De-O
You Took My Heart
Hello, Smack!
Come and Get It
Stan's Dance
Blue Moon
Airlift
It's All Over Now
Wine-O Junction
Heavy Duty
Girl Hunt

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The Lonehill Jazz collection was established for the sole purpose of recovering lost jazz treasures previously unavailable on any other edition worldwide. This re-mastered collection features the ebullient trombone stylings of Dicky Wells including the complete LP's 'Bones For The King' & 'Trombone Four-In-Hand'. 2005.

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Digitally Remastered Recordings featuring Kenny Burrell, Vic Dickenson, Benny Morton, Buddy Tate and Jo Jones.

Customer Reviews:

Dicky Wells.......2007-03-31

This CD contains material from two Felsted LPs Dicky Wells recorded in 1958-59. One LP, "Bones for the King," starts off with 3 tracks featuring a trombone quartet (Wells, Vic Dickenson, Benny Morton, and George Matthews), with Skip Hall on organ. BONES is a slow blues, with just a tad too much of Hall's desultory organ for my tastes. SWEET DADDY SPO-DE-O is a medium-tempo blues, with appealing, though corny, lyrics thrown in by Wells and Vic. Major Holley takes two wonderful solos on this track and steals the show. The remaining 3 tracks from this LP have a completely different front line: Buck Clayton (tp) Rudy Rutherford (cl/bar) and Buddy Tate (ts/bar) along with Vic (Everett Barksdale is added on guitar, and the rhythm section stays the same). Vic's outlandish humor comes to the fore on COME AND GET IT while STAN'S DANCE contains a great Buddy Tate baritone sax solo (also a horrendous squeak from Rutherford's clarinet).

The trombone quartet returns for the second album included ("Trombone Four-in-Hand"), and they perform more in a choir format than above. Kenny Burrell is added on this material, and he takes a jaunty solo on AIRLIFT. WINE-O JUNCTION is an up-tempo swinger, with good solos all around. GIRL HUNT swings even harder and is the gem of the entire CD. Although these 12 Felsted sides (one track from the "Four-in-Hand" LP has been left off) pale in comparison to Dicky Wells's work with Count Basie in the '30s or his brilliant recordings in Paris in the summer of 1937 with Django Reinhardt among others, they are decent enough examples of mainstream swing played by masters of the trombone.

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